Cordula was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 30, 1892, the second of five children born to John J. Kaemmerling and Cecilia Stromberg. She had one brother, Eric, who became a diocesan priest, and three sisters, one of whom died as an infant. Sr. M. Wereburga entered at Clyde, Missouri a year after her younger sister, Sr. M. Clementine.

Sister M. Wereburga was a very dedicated woman all her 95 years of life. School was not to her liking, so she left and went to work even before she was 16 and got a license to do bookkeeping. But being drawn by a religious vocation she left her job and came to Clyde. Her Grandfather seems to have known the Clyde Sisters from the earliest years. When Sister was in her early teens some of the Sisters stopped at her home in Milwaukee while on a collecting tour. She related that her grandfather was always helping the Clyde Sisters by soliciting subscriptions to our magazine.

She herself must have inherited something from her grandfather in that she worked most of her life in the Correspondence Department. She thought of herself as one "of its permanent brackets". From 1914- 1919 she was also assistant prefectress of the academy.

"Dear ole Clyde" was dear to her heart, and it was difficult to leave it, when she was transferred for the first time in 1982 to our Kansas City monastery, then later to St. Benedict Health Care Center in 1983. Sister grew old gracefully and with a sense of humor. She waited a long time to return to Him from whom she came. The Thursday before she died she was anointed with a group of sisters around her bed. A few days later she asked for the Sisters to pray with her and it was then that we knew that she was preparing to go home to God. She died very peacefully with several sisters around her bed on Monday afternoon, January 11, 1988.